xAI filed what it calls its first legal action against a Grok user, alleging South Carolina’s Terry Wayne Harwood bypassed safeguards and used the chatbot to alter nonconsensual images and generate CSAM. Harwood was arrested in Feb. 2026 and faces eight felony charges.
OpenAI launched its first piece of consumer hardware in July 2026 — not the much-discussed AI device in development with former Apple designer Jony Ive, but a compact control pad built for its coding platform, Codex. The device, called Codex Micro, is a limited-run collaboration…
Google and Epic withdrew July 15, 2026 proposed court changes following Judge James Donato’s Oct 2024 finding that Google had an illegal Android app-distribution monopoly, after a reported $800 million Epic settlement. Google says third-party app stores will be hosted inside Google Play starting July 22, and US developer listings will auto-share unless they opt out.
Microsoft released a significant batch of Windows 11 updates on July 14, 2026, as part of its July Patch Tuesday rollout. Among the changes is the ability for users to pause Windows updates…
SpaceXAI said its Grok Build CLI was quietly uploading whole code repositories to Google Cloud—including files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history—after July 2026 coverage by Cereblab. As of Monday the service returned disable_codebase_upload:true; Elon Musk promised deletion, while researcher Lukasz Olejnik called the data retention “excessive.”
On July 14, 2026, a widespread Plex outage hit live TV and on-demand, plus the plex.tv API and Discover Together, and some users even reported degraded local LAN playback (“takes ages” and may not work). Plex confirmed the issues on its status page and X, noting an outage lasting over an hour at the time of reporting.
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California federal court on Friday, July 11, 2026, accusing former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. The 41-page…
Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) argues in a July 2026 post for a US-led “frontier AI” regulator modeled on FINRA. It would evaluate models pre-release and coordinate an industry slowdown for too-risky systems, aiming to be operational before year-end; Hassabis warns AGI is “a few short years away.”
Apple released iOS 27 betas on July 13, 2026, bringing the delayed Siri AI update; The Verge calls it functional but brief. The program also adds iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate. Betas may glitch and drain battery faster—back up first.
Microsoft announced in July 2026 that it is testing a stripped-down version of the Windows 11 search menu, removing ads, recommended content, and other distractions. The update is currently rolling…
Google is adding four new features to its Waze navigation app in 2026, two of which are powered by its Gemini AI assistant. The updates aim to give drivers more control over how they interact with…
Ursula von der Leyen says the EU may propose new child social media rules within months: no screens under 3, supervised access under 13, and tighter limits for older teens, with platforms required to prove safety for younger users. The Commission will review the report “after the summer,” but any law needs approval from the European Parliament and all 27 EU member states, amid DSA scrutiny over Meta’s addictive design and TikTok’s 2026 findings.
